Holocaust Voices
A Menorah That Escaped The Anschluss
By: HMC Archival Staff – This brass Menorah (c. 1900), used during the Jewish festival of Chanukah, was brought to the US by Lili and Karl Kolb in 1938, shortly…
My Story – Rae Nachbar
By: Rae (Wygoda) Nachbar, Holocaust Survivor – Was it luck? I am a survivor from Pultusk, Poland. On Sept 26, 1939, the entire Jewish population of over 3,000 people was…
My Story – Sophie (Tajch) Klisman
By: Sophie (Tajch) Klisman, Holocaust Survivor – At the age of 88, I attended my mother’s funeral. I know I sound too old to be attending my mother’s funeral, but you…
My Story – Michael Weiss
By: Michael Weiss, Holocaust Survivor – My name is Michael Weiss. I am a Holocaust survivor. I was born in November 1924 in Kaszony, a little village in the Carpathian…
1 in 6,000,000
By: Aliza Tick, Education Specialist – The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition…
An Heirloom Of Remembrance
By: Isaac Vineburg, Digital Media Associate – In the summer of 2020, in the thrall of a pandemic, I got married in a small, socially-distant ceremony held in the front…
Our Living Artifact – The Viola and Garry Kappy Anne Frank Tree & Exhibit
The Zekelman Holocaust Center houses many beautiful artifacts to share with every visitor, from original letters written to family members during the Holocaust to intriguing photographs and personal objects of…
Religious Diversity Journeys Lead to the Holocaust Memorial Center
By: InterFaith Leadership Council of Metropolitan Detroit – Aleena Malik, 15, is a rising sophomore at Troy High School. In the seventh grade, she participated as a Religious Diversity Journeys…
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